On Tuesday
September11,2001 two hijacked planes slammed into the New York's World
Trade Center , destroying the twin 110-story towers.

The
September 11 attacks, often referred to as September 11th or 9/11
(pronounced as "nine eleven"), were a series of coordinated suicide
attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On
that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger
jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners
into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing
everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both
buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and
damaging others.

The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington,
Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.

The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural
Pennsylvania after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to
retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward
Washington, D.C to target the White House. There were no survivors from
any of the flights.

FBI aerial photograph United airlines Flight 93 Crash Site

All four planes were hijacked within hours of each other.

Several cell phone calls from the planes reported teams of 3 to 5
hijackers armed with knives and box cutters had commandeered the
flights. In total there were 19 hijackers.

There were a total of 2,996 deaths, including the 19 hijackers and 2,977
victims.The victims were distributed as follows: 246 on the four planes
(from which there were no survivors), 2,606 in New York City in the
towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon. More than 90
countries lost citizens in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

It is estimated that 40,000 to 50,000 people were at The World Trade
Center.

341 New York City Firefighters , 2 NY Fire Department paramedics
and 23 New York Police Department officers were killed,
including Peter Ganci, Fire Department chief and The Rev. Mychal Judge,
New York Fire Department chaplain. The Port Authority Police Department
lost 37 officers,and 8 additional EMTs and paramedics from private EMS
units were killed.

Likely locations of World Trade Center decedents at time of impact

a. Where possible, NIST used eyewitness accounts to place individuals.
Where no specific accounts existed, NIST used
employer and floor information to place individuals.
b. These individuals were typically security guards and fire safety
staff who were observed performing activities below the
floors of impact after the aircrafts struck.
c. These 24 individuals were largely performing maintenance, janitorial,
delivery, safety, or security functions.
d. Emergency responders were defined to be people who arrived at the
site from another location. Thus, security staff and Port
Authority staff (different from PA Police Officers) were not defined as
emergency responders.
e. Does not include the five hijackers per aircraft. Credit NIST

By sunset on September 11, 2001, all seven buildings on the World Trade
Center site lay in ruins.

In September 2001 The US had high security on international flights, and
virtually no security on internal flights. Key parts of international
procedure - such as making sure bags are accompanied, and X-raying hold
baggage - are absent. Airport security was maintained by low paid
employees that had a high rate of turnover.

American Airlines
Flight 11 takes off from Boston’s Logan International Airport for
Los Angeles.

8:00 a.m.

New York City
public schools open for the fourth day of the new school year.

8:14 a.m.

United Airlines
Flight 175 takes off from Boston’s Logan International Airport for
Los Angeles.

8:20 a.m.

American Airlines
Flight 77 takes off from Washington, DC’s Dulles International
Airport for Los Angeles.

8:42 a.m.

United Airlines
Flight 93 departs 42 minutes late from Newark International
Airport for San Francisco.

8:46 a.m.

After receiving a
call from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Boston control
center that Flight 11 has been hijacked, the Northeast Air Defense
Sector (NEADS) scrambles two military jets to the New York area
from Otis Air National Guard Base, Cape Cod.

8:46 a.m.

Hijackers crash
American Airlines Flight 11 into floors 94 to 98 of 1 World Trade
Center, the North Tower.

8:46 a.m.

The Fire Department
of New York (FDNY) receives the first report of a plane crash into
the North Tower. Evacuation in the North and South Towers begins.

9:00 a.m.

FDNY, the New York
Police Department (NYPD) and the Port Authority Police Department
(PAPD) are at their highest mobilization levels. Port Authority
civilian staff and all on-duty WTC response staff have
mobilized.

9:03 a.m.

Hijackers crash
United Airlines Flight 175 into floors 78 to 84 of 2 World Trade
Center, the South Tower.

9:15 a.m.

Officials begin
closing New York City bridges and tunnels to all but emergency
vehicles and pedestrians.

The New York Stock
Exchange does not open at its scheduled time; its employees
evacuate.

9:37 a.m.

Hijackers crash
American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.

9:40 a.m.

The Federal
Aviation Administration orders all 4,546 planes in North American
airspace to land at the nearest airport.

By 9:45 a.m.

Evacuations are
under way at the United States Capitol, the White House, the
Empire State Building, the United Nations, the Kennedy Space
Center, Disney World and major sites across the United States.

9:59 a.m.

2 WTC, the South
Tower, collapses in 9 seconds.

10:03 a.m.

Hijackers crash
United Airlines Flight 93 in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania,
after passengers launch a counterattack to seize control of the
aircraft.

10:28 a.m.

1 WTC, the North
Tower, collapses in 11 seconds. All 16 acres of the World Trade
Center site are in ruins. A rescue and recovery effort
begins immediately at the WTC Site.

10:30 a.m.

New York Governor
George E. Pataki declares a state of emergency in New York State.

11:02 a.m.

New York City Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani orders the evacuation of all of Lower Manhattan
below Canal Street, including workers, residents, tourists, and
schoolchildren.

1:27 p.m.

A state of
emergency is declared in Washington, DC.

2:35 p.m.

Mayor Giuliani
holds a press conference at the New York City Police Academy,
estimating that “the number of casualties will be more than any of
us can bear.”

5:20 p.m.

7 World Trade
Center collapses.

8:30 p.m.

President George W.
Bush addresses the nation, saying: “Today, our nation saw … the
very worst of human nature. And we responded with the best of
America—with the daring of our rescue workers, with the caring for
strangers and neighbors who came to give blood and help in any way
they could.”
All told, 2,975 men, women and children fell victim to the second
terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the terrorist
attacks in Pennsylvania and Virginia

Former Vice President Al Gore was head of a commission that recommended
sweeping changes in airport security several years before September
11,2001, The United States Congress, The Federal Aviation Administration
and the airline industry basically dismissed the recommendations, saying
it would cause delays and it would be too costly.

Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, warned three weeks before the attack
that he and his followers would carry out an unprecedented attack on US
interests for its support of Israel.

The idea for the September 11 plot came from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who
first presented the idea to Osama bin Laden in 1996.

Many people in The United States questioned how these terrorists armed
with only box cutters, could strike these targets so easily.

A
box cutter compared to a 6" ruler

On April 29, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama authorized a raid on bin
Laden's suspected location near Abbottabad, Pakistan. The operation was
successfully carried out in the early morning of May 2 by U.S.
Navy SEALs with intelligence support from the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA). Toward the end of the raid, bin Laden was fatally shot in
the head and chest. The entire raid, including intelligence sweeps of
the compound, was completed in less than 40 minutes. His body was taken
and facial recognition tests were performed. Later, genetic testing
further supported bin Laden's identification. Within 24 hours of his
death, Osama bin Laden's body was taken out to sea for burial. The
United States military said, the reason for the decision made, to bury
Osama bin Laden's body in the sea, was to circumvent international
difficulties in choosing a burial site, but other reasons indicate that
the move to bury his body at sea, was designed to prevent any physical
enshrinement of the terrorist leader.

New York World Trade Center and Memorial September 2011

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